In this episode of the Integral Health Resources Podcast, the Cancer Chronicles continue with an update following my visit to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
IHR Podcast #28: The power of expectations
In this episode of the Integral Health Resources Podcast, I recount and reflect upon the latest twists and turns of my “journey” since being diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Happiness = Reality – Expectations. That’s what they say, and I think they might be right, so learning to calibrate expectations and hold them as lightly as possible continues to be a challenge.
IHR Podcast #27: Cancer diagnosis
In this episode of the Integral Health Resources Podcast, I update my own health status, which includes a recent diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
IHR Podcast #26: Rise of the Attentionauts
In this episode of the Integral Health Resources Podcast, I say “Hey” for the first time in eleven months, then ramble about reevaluating and revamping the podcast/website in the direction of my current foci: attentionology, meditation, and critical psychology.
Media and resources referenced:
- Tristan Harris and the Center for Humane Technology
- Humane: A New Agenda for Tech (Tristan Harris)
- Your Undivided Attention Podcast
- Cal Newport (computer scientist at Georgetown University)
- Sam Harris (Host of the Making Sense Podcast and creator of the Waking Up meditation course)
- Zeynep Tufekci
- Renée DiResta
- Matthew B. Crawford
- William James (His seminal work, The Principles of Psychology, contains an entire chapter on “Attention”)
- Jenny Odell
IHR Podcast #25: Skin cancer, present state awareness training, collective health decisions, technologies of isolation, and the meaning of anxiety
In this episode of the Integral Health Resources Podcast, I talk about my very recent experience with skin cancer surgery, then I ramble on about a variety of health-related topics that may or may not hang together in a coherent fashion.
Media, resources, and photos referenced:
- The Secret to a Longer Life? Don’t Ask These Dead Longevity Researchers
- Bill Maher calls for collective action to save the environment and fight the scourge of pests and pollution
- How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult (via David Roberts)
- Joe Edelman’s tweet: “The five most powerful technologies of isolation—smartphones, cars, suburbs, TV, and single family homes—arose just in the last century.”
- Wonderfully described, down-to-earth tips on how to get started with a meditation practice, via Tim Ferriss
- Can you diet help prevent skin cancer? (Dietary recommendation from the Skin Cancer Foundation)
- Johann Hari’s tweet: “#Depression, #anxiety and #addiction are signals – that the individual is in deep pain; that our culture is not meeting their underlying psychological needs. We need to stop insulting and pathologizing these signals, and to start respectfully listening to what they’re telling us.”
IHR Podcast #24: Delivering your cargo
In this episode of the Integral Health Resources Podcast, I take a journey from New Mexico to North Carolina and back again, then continue rambling through Kornfields and dark webs before rallying to restore my sanity.
Media referenced in this episode:
The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, Episode 290: Jack Kornfield
The Joe Rogan Experience, Episode 1129: Tom Papa
IHR Podcast #23: Summer 2018 reboot
In this episode of the Integral Health Resources Podcast, I resuscitate the podcast after a year-long, self-induced coma. What have I been up to and interested in during this hiatus? There’s only one way to find out.
IHR Podcast #22: Time Well Spent
In this episode of the Integral Health Resources Podcast, I share my thoughts on Tristan Harris, his Time Well Spent movement, and the struggle for ownership of my attention in this age of digital distraction.
IHR Podcast #21: Criticizing science in truthless times
In this episode of the Integral Health Resources Podcast, I reflect on the following question: How can we challenge and expose bad ideas and corruptive influences in mainstream science without playing into the hands of anti-intellectuals in this age of “fake news” and Trumpian obfuscation?
Video version of the podcast:
Related blog post:
- Legitimate criticism of scientific authority in truthless times, by Yours Truly
IHR Podcast #20: What am I doing here?
In this episode of the Integral Health Resources Podcast, I think out loud about the question “What am I doing here?” before rambling on about everything under the sun.
